. ' - - - -~16 . · \ He•~t-Tre•fore: _ , ... · primitive -Chaos f vanity and conf\lfion? However men may be bewitched with the ' Woddsbravery, yet thefpitftof Gdd judg· l\S.2.f·"l· eth ol it; but as ame~r p~anJafie, or Pa&ean~· ~C,2r·1·3 1• ibew,· or as ~Matheijnaucal figure, whtch 1s · ~.,~~ but a notion, an Idea in the fancyor imagi:. · nation : at the beft 'cis but an accidental fi• gute without fubft-ance: what {olid content have you ever found in it ? when 'you baye • fought to the Creature, bath it not anfwered.. ¥ 'tis n_ot inme to 61 the {oul, or doyougood? or at bell but like a dream of the night-vifi.:. on,. When the hungry and thidly think they liai, 2g. eat anddrink,bl:lt are faint -when theyawake: · , ,, •· - -have not your fouls found this too true by 'fad ex~erience/ why now, l·ay up thefethings, pro~uce them out _ot your · .~ore, and le~rn thereby to trufi the V{otld no ~ore : .Oh · what good may rhe(e do you .upop a tem– ptation to carnal confiden~e! . cremble to pier<:e and prejudice thy foul again, never lean upon thisbroken reed, that wil run into thy hand and hcarr, and pi~rce thee with many forrows here , atid be in danger t.o . . drown thee in eternal perdition, 1 Tim·. 6. g, ,~hil..tque 'lo~ The truth I-s, th~re's!lathing-an{wcrs 9ur 4 ~ptu;:t ·defires and ho{>es 111 rb1s World, nothtog ::;:;r~· pleafei:h us fo wel in the fruition, as in the t7'lltlllll~ .~. expetl'ation, we :finde the World but a lie, tllin. _ .and the (Weecetlcomforts, lying vanities, an(l · - (as one faith ) -our leanmg-!bft becomes a knockingG:udgel : wel t'hen, fince you have ·· ,., · foqnd it fo, look upon it as fo, and ~ay up ··", that ex·perimenc. · > : 2• Lay , I
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